egyptian animation festival _ university of minia

the university of Minia (Egypt), is hosting an animation festival from the 6th -9th April... I will be visiting, giving a talk on my research into African animation, the UNESCO Africa Animated Project and my involvement on it... as well as an overview of the computer generated animations produced at Bournemouth University, the technology we use and the philosophy behind our course - that is a merger between the arts and technology. Thanks to the University of Minia, and in particular my new found Egyptian animator friend, Mohammed Ghazala!! I hope that this visit will encourage the exposure of African animation, and at the same time prove to be a personal journey to discovering the animation of another African country, Egypt!! I'm really looking forward to it - I invite any African animators to send me examples of their work, should they want to show their work at this event. You may contact me at pcallus@bmth.ac.uk

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on line interview with animator pippa lugg

Pippa has just forwarded me this link... anyone who is interested in reading about her work and experience on AA click here...
http://animationblock.typepad.com/editorial/animated_lives/index.html
the pages also provide other information related to animation

from Zim, Uganda, and South Africa... animators carl, diana, and greg!  

some more pictures of the Africa Animated Experience in Durban 2005 

deep in thought... me and the african philosopher  

more news...

So here is some more news from Peter in Kenya... peter participated on the Africa Animated project which ran in Kenya - his work is great and I recommend you check out his link!

Peter Mute: Kenya
"Gado and I have done a small project together for
our local public broadcaster here in Kenya ...
a copy of it is on my website (www.yebikenya.com)...
...KCCT college back here in Kenya wanted to find out about the processes
they'd have to undergo to become a certified
animation training center. "

SOunds exciting - lets hope that Kenya will have its training centre set up soon!! This could mean that Kenya could be moving towards a greater exposure of the medium at large...

alf and nathan (another AA star!!)...

more news from the AA2 guys

Ok so the emails are begining to flood in... more news from
Pippa Lugg: SA
"while down in Cape Town I went to see Sunrise Productions who are working on an Animation Feature...
...I've recently met a girl in Port Elizabeth, where I live, who is newly in PE from CT and used to work for Triggerfish. She's very keen to collaborate on an Animation so I'm very pleased that I'll have her to work with until AA2 links up again."

hope that my pilot internet project will act as a proposed model to apply in Africa... Distance Web Based Collaborations... still may not be as good as the real thing...mmm

Alfred Muchilwa: Kenya
"Me? Yes I still animate once in a while, was verythrilling to see the africa animated 2 stuff on TV. Itlooks (and sounds) good.
Well a few months back an Egyptian animator reachedme.. he hasbeen researching African Animation too. "

Alfred - do you have a web site??

In the meantime you can find out more about alfred's goings on round the world...
http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/15festival/home/home_en.asp

alfred... all across the globe at the15th VideoBrasil International Electronic Art Festival
 

"motif of life" team, me and...a blonde babe from Zim?!?, Durban 2005

Update : Searching African Animators!!

Got an update from Maina; everyone will be pleased to know that his group's animation has also been selected to be shown at flickerfest... Well done!! It was great to see that Maina is planning to continue making animations in Kenya, and I can't wait to see some more output from the dude... and apparently the AA launch was a blast, unfortunately I couldn't make it, which was a shame especially because African philosopher and main man Moses was there...

Check out the link for more info on "The Motif of Life"...
http://www.flickerfest.com.au/programme.asp?proid=173

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Just updating the news from everyone in reply to my e-mail-
Jacquie Trowell: South Africa
I'll just quote ... here's the news from SA!!
"well, my news is that i’m still expecting to se you in berlin next month.
beyond freedom has been selected as one of TEN short films in competition at the berlin international film festival.
this is pretty cool.....
meanwhile, the Animation Production Training Initiative is underway here.
it’s the first time gov orgs have got together to support animation. (as far as i know)..."
for more info on other projects by Jac check out:
http://www.janewarren.com/directors.htm?sm%5Bp1%5D%5Bcategory%5D=137&sm%5Bp1%5D%5Bpersistent%5D=1&

Cilia Sawadago: Burkina Faso/ Canada
"On my side, I'll start a new film in the next months, just got word about some funding for preproduction.
I'll coming to London on from the 2nd to the 5th of march 2006 to the African film festival there...
...I presented the AA1 and AA2 at the Montreal National Museum of Contemporary Art during a conference on African Animation that I did there last night. "

Animation Training Production Initiative 2006 : The governement intiative in South Africa involves a collaboration between Anamazing and the Department of Art and Culture, the National Film and Video Foundation, the National Electronic Institute of SA, and SABC. It is currently calling for applicaitons from 13scriptwriters for children's stories, a later date will be announced for the call for animation directors. Keep an eye out for more news....

Montreal National Museum of Contemporary Art:

Go to : http://www.macm.org/en/education/conferences.html

blogs...mmmm

searching through other blogs... this looks interesting
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2005_11.html#001458

http://www.atjoburg.net/?p=80

http://angriest.blogspot.com/2005/09/takalani-sesame.html

more info on Cilia's talk in Montreal

http://www.fpsmagazine.com/2006/01/african-animation-lecture-and.php

Searching for All African Animators

Just got an e-mail from animator Godfrey from Tanzania, both a talented artist and animator... thought of a plan... ask him to redirect all his friends, and fellow animators to post some comments on african animation, and their thoughts on it... I hope anyone that stumbles across this blog will be inspired to add a line or two....
anyway in the meantime check out Godrey and Alfred's animation, TOTO's Journey on

http://www.semwaiko.s5.com/

http://www.adgf.net/adgfblog/?page_id=4

now showing at Flickerfest

http://www.flickerfest.com.au/programme.asp?proid=172

night for now....

some other african animation links....

OK here are some other african animation links...
Gregg's groovy page from the Africa Animated V2 Team.... YEAHHH
http://www.iaminawe.com/
Article on Beyond Freedom - good one Jacquie!!
http://www.filmmaker.co.za/edition/news_page.php?subaction=showfull&id=1127411269&archive=&start_from=&ucat=10 and
http://www.ngsednet.org/community/showcase_view.cfm?community_id=285&showcase_id=285

more on Africa Animated
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds122004/experiences-2823.html

and Kwame my main man... the absolute dude of all dudes - respect!!
http://www.kwamenyongo.com/
http://www.africancolours.net/content/8364

african puppets?
http://www.africanpuppet.com/
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memories from Africa Animated 1

Me and some of the Africa Animate gang off the shores of Zanzibar eating ugali and fish soup and ciappatti...yum. To find out about the Africa Animate Project V1 which ran in Kenya go to....
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14786&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
and
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17285&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html


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2006 proposal

Ok so I haven't decided how I am going to use this blog... will it be a diary of my progress with regards to my research - or just some general rambling. In the meantime here it is my first post...

Just starting looking at creating a proposal for my research in African animation, a greatly unknown topic... Unclear on what aspects I want to focus on, whether I will look at the animation industry or wherether I am addressing independant animations...